New Lifetime High Reached: Moody's Corporation (MCO)

Trade-Ideas LLC identified Moody's Corporation (MCO) as a new lifetime high candidate

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Trade-Ideas LLC identified Moody's Corporation ( MCO) as a new lifetime high candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Moody's Corporation as such a stock due to the following factors:

MCO has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $80.5 million.

Moody's Corporation provides credit ratings; and credit, capital markets, and economic related research, data, and analytical tools worldwide. The company operates through Moody's Investors Service and Moody's Analytics segments. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 1.3%. MCO has a PE ratio of 23.4. Currently there are 5 analysts that rate Moody's Corporation a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold.

The average volume for Moody's Corporation has been 1.1 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Moody's has a market cap of $21.8 billion and is part of the services sector and diversified services industry. The stock has a beta of 1.48 and a short float of 3.1% with 7.27 days to cover. Shares are up 12.4% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.